It's plausible, but I don't believe the technology is there yet. It's very hard for speech recognition systems to interpret untrained voices. IBM's real time voice translation may be capable of this, but the details are sketchy at this point. If Google were to do this, it would require massive server farms or Google might be forced to switch to RISC based systems since this a very numeric intensive process.
----- Original Message ---- From: James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2007 10:23:05 PM Subject: Re: Google builds own phone | The Register Tracy R Reed wrote: > Randall Shimizu wrote: >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/02/google_phone/ > > What do you want to bet that they have a massive voice recognition > system all conversations will be piped through and can data mine the > things we say and the screen will display related ads? Combined with > having a GPS whenever you say "I'm hungry" on your phone a restaurant > across the street will pop up on the screen. > ..puts a whole new meaning to "be careful what you ask for" doesn't it? ..j -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
